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Sat, 29 Jan 2005

PrBoom in Linux Format

I just spotted that Linux Format included an article about PrBoom in their February issue (LXF63). No online version I'm afraid. They talk about it in the context of client-server network games, and it has a little column to itself in amount their "Network Everything" series of articles.

…We'll examine PrBoom, a modern version of the classic shooter. Linux and Windows versions of this are available…

Like many other network games, PrBoom is separated into client and server parts… the server is started first and the client's machines log in to the server to play.…

It's particularly nice for me, because the network code is the one bit of PrBoom I can claim is all my own — since I rewrote it years ago, and am responsible for the current client-server design. They liked the wget-retrieval of WAD files to clients, although it is years since I wrote that — I'm surprised that it still works.

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Colin Phipps.
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